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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1983

2017

2015

2014

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0

1.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Active-active shard replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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